Extermination

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Extermination \Ex*ter`mi*na"tion\, n. [Cf. F. extermination.]
     1. The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication;
        excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes,
        of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.
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     2. (Math.) Elimination. [R.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  extermination
       n 1: complete annihilation; "they think a meteor cause the
            extinction of the dinosaurs" [syn: {extinction}]
       2: the act of exterminating [syn: {liquidation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "extermination":
     abolishment, abolition, annihilation, annulment, bane, blood,
     bloodletting, bloodshed, braining, choking, choking off,
     dealing death, deracination, destruction, destruction of life,
     dispatch, elimination, eradication, euthanasia, execution,
     extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, flow of blood, gore,
     immolation, kill, killing, lapidation, liquidation, martyrdom,
     martyrization, mercy killing, negation, nullification, poisoning,
     purge, ritual killing, ritual murder, rooting out, sacrifice,
     shooting, silencing, slaughter, slaying, snuffing out, stifling,
     stoning, strangulation, suffocation, suppression, taking of life,
     uprooting, voiding